m yy November 20, 1988 NDP r By Daphne Bramham Canadian Press PORT ALBERNI — Jeweller Gerard Janssen shone for the New Democrats in the Alberni byelection Saturday night, retaining for the Opposition NDP the seat former provincial leader Bob Skelly held for 16 years. With all 63 polls counted, Janssen — a 42-year-old jeweller and former Chamber of Commerce president — had 6,293 votes and a convincing win. Social Credit candidate George Dryden followed with 3,064 votes, ahead of Liberal Shirley Bonfield with 1,618. Fifty-eight per cent of the 18,772 eligible voters in the riding went to the polls. etains Alb Premier Bill Vander Zalm's Socreds, however, still hold a healthy majority in the legislature, There are now 44 Socreds, 22 NDP including Janssen, one Independent and two vacancies. “It's telling the premier and the Social Credit party that they better start listening to the ordinary people of British Columbia,” Janssen, speaking to reporters at a union hall, said of his victory. ‘The premier, in a statement released by his office, offered congratulations to Janssen. “Byelections are generally tough for governments and the constituency of Alberni has been particularly difficult, but we gave it a good try,” the premier said. The three-way byelection race in the Vancouver Island riding, where logging and fishing are the key industries, was held the same day as provincewide civic elections. Skelly resigned in the spring to run for the NDP in the federal riding of Comox-Alberni in Monday's election. In 1986, when his party lost badly to the Socreds, Skelly still won his riding easily, He collected 8,597 votes to easily the Socred did with 6,487 and Liberal, with 377. ANOTHER LOSS The Alberni vote represented the second byelec- tion test of Vander Zalm's government. The Social Credit party suffered a spring loss to the NDP in the traditionally solid Socred riding of Boundary-Similk ameen. erni seat ‘The Liberals have not had a representative in the provincial legislature for more than a decade. Bonfield, the 54-year-old president of the Alberni Teachers Federation, wasted little time eclipsing the handful of votes her party colleeted in Alberni in the 1986 general election. But she still finished last. Dryden, meanwhile, managed to avoid that fate, a prospect raised by former attorney general Brian Smith the day Vander Zalm called the byelection, Vander Zalm spent just three hours campaigning in Alberni on behalf of Dryden, a 61-year-old retired B.C. Hydro lineman. ‘The premier made five separate trips to Boundary- Similkameen riding during that byelection. Pe November 20, 1988 C ‘astlégar News A’ TRAFFIC JAM. . . A two vehicle accident on Columbia Avenue at Vth St. tied up traffic Friday afternoon. The driver of a grey Volkswagon Golf. 25-year-old David Pick of Rossland was.charged with following too close. He was taken to Castlegar and district Hospital with minor injuries. The driver of a brown Buick, Carrie Leiman, 19, of Castlegar was uninjured. CasNews Photo by Bonne Morgan Campbell back as mayor the aldermanic race that attracted 31 candidates for 10 seats. Two veteran Six NPA candidates were in the were top 10 with 130 of 144 polls reporting. British Crusty lawyer Harry Rankin, who lost to Campbell in 1986, returned to council as an alderman from the left-of-centre Committee of Progressive Electors which held three seats with only 14 polls to ¢ome. It was the first time in 38 years By RON SUDLOW Canadian Press VANCOUVER — campaigners and “the kid” returned as mayors in Columbia civic elections Saturday. Flyin’ Phil Gaglardi, 75, a longtime Social Credit cabinet minister, easily defeated five other candidates to become mayor of Kamloops while Frank Ney, 71, well known for his support of the zany Nanaimo- Vancouver bathtub race, won there were only two candidates for another term in Nanaimo. mayor of Vancouver, a job that pays In Vancouver, the boyish-looking $62,000 a year. Gordon Campbell easily wona second A proposed ward system for term, defeating single mother Jean Vancouver was in trouble with a Swanson, his only opponent. 53-per-cent yes vote. A majority of 60 With the count nearly complete in per cent was required to elect Kamloops, Gaglardi had 43.6 per cent uldermen, trustees and parks board of the vote, former alderman Kenna members in 10 wards rather than at Cartwright had 32.8 and incumbent large. Campbell had endorsed wards John Dormer was third in a six-way APPROVE REVIEWS race with 12.5 per cent. In another referendum, voters Gaglardi, known for his collection +2 narrowly endorsing neighbor. of speeding tickets and other driving i464 reviews of thousands of illegal infractions ‘when he was provincial cvites throughout the city with a highways minister, had been out of Jiy to permitting them under polities since 1972. He had served cor+ain conditions. provincially for 20 years. Ney, made a successful comeback as Nanaimo mayor in 1986 after Westminster where Elizabeth losing for one term. Prior to his loss, Toporowski ousted incumbent he had been mayor for 17 Thomas Baker in a four-way race. consecutive years. A familiar name topped the polls in SUPPORT WIDESPREAD Invermere where Allan Chabot Campbell, 40, called a “developer's defeated the Jacqueline Riches to mayor” by opponents, led Swanson, become the new mayor of the who lives in a $330-a-month base- Kootenay community. Chabot is the ment suite, by a wide margin. With son of Socred Jim Chabot who most of the votes counted, th. represenced Columbia River in the incumbent had 63 per cent of the legislature. In North Vancouver District, Mayor Marilyn Baker was re-elected for what she said will be her final term. Baker took 82 per cent of the vote over challenger Peter Faminow. Don Lanskail, former chairman of There was an upset in nearby New vote. Campbell's Non-Partisan Associa: tion was headed for control of city council although broadcaster Carole Taylor, an independent endorsed by the NPA, was leading the polls in Forest licence hearing delayed VANCOUVER (CP) — A hearing Wednesday and Thursday in Mac. into an application to create a kenzie, about 160 kilometres north of six-million-hectare tree farm licence Prince George. in the northern British Columbia interior has been postponed until next year, Forests Minister Dave Parker said. Several environmental groups and a local native organization were expected to attend to oppose the application, by Fletcher Challenge “Government agencies need more Canada Ltd. and its subsidiary, Fin- time to review the area’s other re- lay Forest Products Ltd. source values, such as recreation, fish, wildlife and water,” Parker said in announcing the delay Tree farm licences give the right to manage a geographic area of Crown land for timber production almost in perpetuity. Other agreements give their owners an annual volume of “We will release a summary of these resource values before the new hearing date, which will be set inthe timber, leaving the management spring.” responsibilities in government The hearing was to have been held hands. the Council of Forest Industries, was returned as mayor of West Vancouver defeating retired sales representative Cuthbert Fleming. Elections were held in 152 B.C. municipalities but turnouts were not expected to be large because the municipal votes became overshad owed by the campaign for Monday's federal election. In Alberni, there was confusion because a provincial byelection coincided with Saturday's votes for council and school board. But it wasn't just the numbers of candidates and issues that were confusing. Finding the right polling place was a chore for some in the Vancouver Island city. “The traditional polling stations that we use can't be used because the municipal elections are taking place,” said Gerard Janssen who held the seat for the New Democratic Party. While there was no mayoralty race in Alberni, five candidates sought three aldermanic seats, three ran for two local school board seats and there were four contestants for one rural school board seat. Most municipalities are into the second year of a changeover to a triennial election system designed to replace traditional two-year terms, reduce costs of holding elections and bring more stability to councils and school boards. By 1990, all municipalities will elect their mayors, aldermen and school trustees to three-year terms. Weather throughout the province ranged from blustery rain on the coast, clouds and showers mixed.with some snow in the Okanagan and Central Interior and cloud and snow flurries in the north. Prince George and Kelowna were among the major B.C. cities where mayors were unopposed. Victoria Mayor Gretchen Brewin was not up for re-election in the provincial capital. Frank Spencer passes away Frank Fredrick Spencer of Castle- gar passed away on Thursday, Nov. 17 after a lengthly illness at the age of 79. A memorial service will be held at St. David's Anglican Church Tuesday at 2 p.m. with Rev. Charles Balfour officiating. Cremation has taken place. Mr. Spencer was born July 11, 1909 at London, England and came to Canada through Bernardo’s in 1920. He settled in southern Ontario where he attended school. In 1928 he came to B.C. and began working for Cominco in 1929. He moved from Trail to Castlegar in 1939 and retired from Cominco in 1969 after 40 years of service. While at Cominco he worked as an electrician. He was a past member of the Eagles Lodge. As hobbies Mr. Spencer enjoyed fishing, travelling and electrical work, wiring many homes in the Castlegar area. He is survived by one daughter, June Archambault of Castlegar; one son, Bruce Spencer of Prince George; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grand children; one brother, George Spen: cer of London, England; one sister Mary Wheeler of London, England and many nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the B.C. Heart Fund, Box 3023, Castlegar, B.C. VIN 3H8. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Funeral service for local woman Tuesday Doris Genero of Robson, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver at the age of 57. Funeral service will be held at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel on Tues- day at 11 a.m. with Pastor Ken Smith officiating. Interment in Robson Cemetery. Mrs. Genero was born April 15, 1931 at New Denver, and is survived by her husband, John of Robson; two sons, James of Kitimat and William of Robson; two daughters, Mar guerite Genero of Castlegar and Willianna Genero of Robson; grand- sons, James, Gordie and Cody; granddaughter, Alycia, mother, Doris Elser of Castlegar; and two brothers, Joe Elser, of Burnaby and Harold Elser of Vancouver Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Castlegar Funeral Chapel. Regional library — efeated By CasNews Staff A new regional library for Nelson went down to defeat last night after voters in Areas H (Slocan Valley) and E voted against the library referendum proposal by almost a two-to-one margin. Area E voted 625-405 against the library, estimated to cost as much as $1 million. Area H voted 656-324 against. The only rural area to approve the library was Area F (North Shore) — which voted 468-276 in favor. The city of Nelson also voted on the referendum but results were unavailable at press time. Only one of the areas had to turn down the proposal for it to fail. There was a 52-per-cent voter turnout in Area E, a 44-per-cent turnout in Area F and a 50-per-cent turnout in Area H. In Area A, Larry Brierly knocked off incumbent director Charles Wilson to become the new regional director. Brierly beat Wilson by a narrow 23-vote margin 271-248. Ted O’Brien was third in the race with 136 votes. There was a 33-per-cent turnout at the polls in Area A. Betty Hess won the race in Area C with 96 votes. She beat Tom Mann who had 64 votes. There was a 22-per-cent turnout in Area C for the election. Incumbent Josh Smienk was re-elected as director of Area A with 679 votes. Smienk beat Hans Elias who finished with 340 votes. Silverton, New Denver and defined Area H voters voted in favor of an increase in taxes on television. Of the 372 ballots cast, 288 favored the increase and 84 were against it. There was a 38 per cent turnout. Area K and Nakusp voters favored an increase in refuse taxation. The vote was 245-198 in favor of the increase. Only 22 per cent of the eligible voters turned out. Fauquier took part in agreeing with an increase in refuse tax for Area K and also voted on two separate issues. An animal control bylaw was dumped 42-28 by Fauquier residents but the voters did agree to a community centre and increased fire protection in a 53-16 decision. There was a 14-per-cent turnout at the polls. , All results are unofficial until tabulated and verified by the Regional District of Central Koot- enay. Coroner finds safety i By CasNews Staff Castlegar coroner, Paul Oglow has concluded that human error com- bined with a disregard of safety regulations led to the death of a 30-year-old logger in Grand Forks. Terry Abraham Dick was a buckerman employed by Earl Flet- cher of Grand Forks on Aug. 23 when he was struck by a falling tree in the Deadeye Creek area 74 kilometres north of Grand Forks. At the time, Dick and Fletcher were repairing a skidder close to the faller. Dick sustained fatal head injuries. The coroner's investigation deter. mined that the skidder was operating in a hazardous area too close to the faller and an inadequate cut on the tree caused it to fall in the wrong direction. Oglow also determined that there was a lack of com munication with the logging opera- tion workers and a lack of super. Man co gnored vision of employees and inspection of falliag procedure for incorrect cuts. The investigation determined all to be coniributing factors in the fatal accident. Oglow made several recommenda- tions as a result of the investigation. He recommends that the British Columbia Workers’ Compensation Board increase inspections with stricter enforcement of the industrial health and safety regulations. The board is urged to make amendments to the industrial health and safety regulations respecting certified training of fallers and buck- ers, and that regular evaluations of workers and inspections of logging sites be conducted by supervisors. The coroner asks that the Work- ers’ Compensation Branch seek a closer working relationship between timber license holders and contrac- tors to ensure a higher quality of safe work procedures. nvicted in “mercy killing” SPOKANE, WASH. (AP) — A man charged with first-degree mur- der for shooting his invalid wife in a “mercy killing” has been convicted of the lesser charge of second-degree manslaughter. ‘A Spokane County Superior Court jury returned the verdict after five days of deliberation in the case of Wallace Jones, 66, who had admitted shooting his bedridden wife twice in the head on June 14: Marjorie Jones, 61, had been left paralysed by a severe stroke she had suffered 2% years earlier. Much of the testimony in the three-week trial focused on Jones’ mental condition at the time of the “We argued to the jury that there is a time to live and a time to die, and that he made a decision when his wife Marjorie was to die, and the jury found that he cannot do that,” Caruso said. The standard sentencing range for second-degree manslaughter is 12 to 14 months in prison, but lawyer Dick Cease said he would ask that Jones serve no jail time. Jones said he had planned to take his own life as well, but told authorities he became ill after shooting his wife. shooting. Three psychiatrists who examined him offered conflicting opinions of whether he was mentally ill at the time and if he should be held liable for his actions. Deputy prosecutor Fred Caruso said although Jones was convicted of a lesser charge, the jury held him accountable for what he did. e ° Police file nent mene Castlegar RCMP are investigating a break-in at a local service station on Columbia Avenue in Castlegar Fri- day night. No further information is available at this time. Briefly Church meal contaminated SYDNEY, N.S. (CP) — Provineial health officials here say it will be a few more days before they know the exact cause of an outbreak of food poisoning that followed a church meal Friday. About 100 people were treated. at two city hospitals suffering from stomach cramps, vomiting and diarrhea. Several were kept in hospital overnight for observation but all were expected to be released by Saturday evening. The victims became sick after purchasing take-home fish dinners at a ppular arinual Trinity United Church fund raising event at Whitney Pier. The supervisor of inspections for the health department here, Sandy Morrison, said the problem was believed to be with the fish and laboratory tests were being carried out. Soviet children recovering MOSCOW (REUTER) — Soviet authorities have launched criminal proceedings against some factories in the Ukrainian city of Chernovtsy, after 130 local children were hit by chemical poisoning, the official news agency Tass said. A chemical element called thallium has been blamed for causing neurological damage to the children and making their hair fall out. Most of the children of Chernovtsy have been evacuated and officials have warned they should not come back until the source of the pollution is found, the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta said on Wednesday. ‘Tass said 60 of the children being treated in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev were know showing signs of recovery. Armenians strike MOSCOW (AP) — A protest strike in Armenia’s capital shut down public transport and most factories as residents continued to demand unification with a predominantly Armenia region of a neighboring republic, Pravda reported Saturday The Communist party daily said the week-long general strike in Yerevan was triggered by reports from the Nagorno-Karabakh region of clashes between police and Armenians that left seven people in hospital with injuries. Official news media have reported no recent vi Nagorno-Karabakh, a part of the Soviet republic of Azerbaijan since 1923, and it was not immediately possible to contact residents by telephone from Moscow Saturday to check the reports. Serbs rally BELGRADE (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of chanting Serbs rallied in Yugoslavia’s capital Saturday to back demands by their ambitious Communist party leader Slobodan Milosevic for more control over the Serbian republic's troubled southern province of Kosovo. “We will not give up Kosovo,” the massive Belgrade crowd chanted as Milosevic and other speakers denounced the alleged nationalism of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority and indirectly attacked other opponents of the Serbian party leader. In Pristina, Kosovo's capital, tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians defied appeals from provincial and national Communist party leaders to stay home and roamed city streets, shaking their fists and chanting anti-Milosevic slogans. Walesa meets authorities WARSAW (AP) — Solidarity leader Lech Walesa said Saturday that two days of meetings with government officials failed to produce agreement on future talks between Poland's Communist authorities and opposition representatives. Walesa met Friday and Saturday with Interior Minister Gen. Czeslaw Kiszezak as part of an effort to set_up large-scale talks on Poland's future, including possible recognition of the now-banned solidarity trade union federation. The two sides agreed to continue contacts with the goal of bringing their positions closer together, the state-run news agency PAP announced in a dispatch about the same Walesa made his comments. Protesters battle police SEOUL (AP) — Thousands of protesters calling for the arrest and execution of former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan battled police Saturday with firebombs and rocks. Riot police fired tear gas and blocked streets to stop students, workers and dissidents from marching on Seoul's city hall. The protesters demanded punishment of the former president for allewged corruption and human rights abuses. “Exucute Chun Doo-hwan; overthrow (President) Roh Tae-woo,” columns of marchers shouted as they paraded through the city centre. “Return stolen wealth to the people,” they yelled. Yonhap, the South Korean news agency, estimated about 12,000 people took part in the protests. Hankook IIbo, a leading Seoul newspaper, estimated the number of protesters at 20,000. Fire hits shantytown DHAKA (AP) — Volunteers searched through ashes and rubble Saturday searching for 25 children missinge after fire swept through a shantytown on the edge of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, police said. Ten people were injued in the fire late Friday night at the makeshift camp in the Mirpur area, police said. About 1,000 huts were destroyed before firemen brought the blaze under control at 1 a.m., two hours after it was reported. The fire apparently started with an electrical short circuit in a quilt shop, police said. The shantytown houses about 20,000 people. The residents speak desh'a i Urdu, rather than i s Bengali | , and call themselves “stranded Pakistanis.” November fertile month LONDON (AP) — Women are more likely to become pregnant in November than in any other month, says a report published Friday. A study of 259 i by artificial i ination at a British hospital showed twice as many babies were conceived in November, December and January as in June or July, with the rate peaking in November. This echoed previous findings that natural conceptions peak at the same time of year, says the report in the British Medical Journal. “Seasonal variations in rates of natural conception in women are well documented,” it said. “The k lasts from early winter to early spring. We found that conceptions resulting from artificial insemination were similarly distributed.” STUDENT VOTE. . per cent. Liberals cam In a mock federal election at Stanley Humphries secondary school the New Democratic Party topped the polls with 48 in second with 28 per cent. The Conservatives a8 ae was 57 per cent. received 22 per cent and the Green Party trailed with seven per cent. The election was organized by social studies students. Voter turnout CosNews Photo OLD FOES Jenkins may hold key By RON NORMAN Editor New Democrat Lyle Kristiansen and Conservative Bob Brisco go head to head for the fourth straight time tomorrow. But it could be a newcomer — Liberal candidate Garry Jenkins — who determines the winner in Kootenay West-Revelstoke. Jenkins says he will be disappointed if he doesn't get at least 20 per cent of the vote in Monday's election. That would be more than double what the Liberals polled in 1984. However, his gain will be at the loss of either Brisco or Kristiansen, and the numbers say it will likely be Brisco who suffers. That's because when the Grit vote collapsed in 1984, much of it went to the Tories. In 1984, the NDP support actually increased over 1980, but the Liberal vote was cut in half — from 16 per cent in 1980 to eight per cent. The Liberals have run a much better campaign this time around. Jenkins is a higher-profile candidate with a a solid campaign team. (His press releases have been triple Brisco’s and seven or eight times the number issued by Kristiansen). Jenkins is also counting on support from those Tories unhappy with their party's support for the free-trade agreement. But there is little chance Jenkins will be sitting in Ottawa when the dust settles. The Kristiansen-Brisco race still promises to be tighter than ever. Brisco, who beat Kristiansen in 1979, lost in 1980 by 2.8 per cent and won in 1984 by 2.2 per cent. With redistribution throwing Revelstoke into the riding, the margin that Brisco would have won by in 1984 is cut to just under 100 — or two-tenths of a per cent. That's close. Every vote will count, and Kristiansen will have his own problem keeping NDP votes from drifting to Green candidate Michael Brown. A self-declared hermit, theme Brown's environmental is attractive to NDP voters — a threat Votes cast in 1984 (adjusted for redistribution) PC} Lib NDP Other 0 5 10 15 20 25 thousands of votes Margin: 95 votes; 0.26% CBC radio covers Castlegar By CasNews Staff CBC Radio News plans to have a reporter in Castlegar as part of its federal election-night coverage. Allan Dow will be in Castlegar on Monday night, while Kevin Brown will report from Prince George, Tait MacFarlane from Vernon and Lisa Cordasco from Victoria. They will be reporting to CBC Radio News' election desk based in Vancouver and co-hosted by Susan MacNamee, Bruno Cimolai and Ken Carty, a political analyst teaching at UBC. The coverage begins at 8 p.m. and will tie in which CBC Radio's national coverage. Kristiansen acknowledged when the Green Party held its first meeting in Nelson. Kristiansen unsuccessfully urged the party not to run a candidate. Brisco's biggest challenge on Monday will be in the northern end of the riding. He must improve in Nakusp and Revelstoke. In 1984 he lost Nakusp by more than 700 votes. Conservative Stan Graham lost Revelstoke by nearly 400’ votes to New Democrat Sid Parker in 1984. For Kristiansen, he will have to improve in Trail, Castlegar and his hometown of Nelson. Brisco took Trail by some 550 votes in 1984, Castlegar by nearly 100 and Nelson by more than 400. There will be about 10 per cent fewer voters eligible this time around. In 1984, with Revelstoke included, there would have been 45,608 eligible voters. But this year only 41,613 voters are registered. However, residents living outside the riding’s “urban” centres like Castlegar, Trail, Nelson and Revelstoke, can still get on the voter's list. They simply must show up at the polling station on Monday with someone from the same polling station who is a registered voter and can swear them in. MULRONEY CONFIDENT Turner woos voters By JIM COYLE Canadian As the long campaign road dwindled to its last few miles, John Turner grew more imploring Saturday and talked about voting from the heart. Ed Broadbent sounded resigned as he recalled his yesterdays. And Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, at home in Quebec and pumped up by positive election-eve polls, was so confident he was talking about when to recall the House of Commons to get his free-trade deal passed. “I would want the House to come back as quickly as possible to make sure that the trade legislation is passed, as it should be, as promptly as possible,” Mulroney told reporters in Montreal, where a Liberal surge has threatened to erode his 1984 Quebec total of 58 seats. The earliest Parliament could be recalled is Dec. 12, three weeks after Monday's vote. The free-trade agreement is to take effect Jan. 1. Earlier, Mulroney was literally singing with delight, joining supporters in a parking-lot rally in Dollard-Des-Ormeaux in a rendition of When Irish Eyes Are Smiling. As for Turner, there was less levity and more emotion as he told a multicultural gathering in the Toronto-aréa town of Woodbridge to vote with their hearts. The election provides a “golden opportunity to restate our loyalty in our country,” Turner said. “(It) is your chance to vote for Canada.” audience shouted encouragement in they offerd up universally-understood boos when Turner denounced both U.S. President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for recent comments he said amounted to undue interference in the Canadian election. Standing before a huge Canadian flag, Turner repeated the now-familiar lines of his self-proclaimed crusade for Canada, scorning the free-trade agreement and accusing Mulroney of selling out the country. It was Turner's last big bid for the 99-riding motherlode of Ontario before he headed to Winnipeg, the city which would spearhead any Grit breakthrough in the West, then on to Vancouver where he will defend his riding of Quadra. Broadbent, in his hometown of Oshawa, waxed a touch sentimental, talking of his 20 years in Parliament and the road still to go for the NDP. He insisted that polls showing his party mired in its traditional third-place are wrong. But Broadbent, who has led the NDP through four elections and will likely contemplate a new calling unless he scores major gains in this one, sounded like a man with modest expec tations. Broadbent, who will finish the campaign in southern Ontario, predicted the NDP would make gains in Otario and the West and elect its first member from Quebec. But he had to be prodded to discuss Atlantic Canada, where he has but one member. And he did not talk about forming a government. “I get a little sentimental on these occasions when I think about those early days of my life as a member of Parliament for Oshawa from '68 to "75 when I was here working with you all the time during the campaign.” . Campaign budgets ° big By CasNews Staff Although the exact figures are still being calculated, Kootenay West- Revelstoke candidates have spent tens of thousands of dollars on their campaigns. The limit each party is allowed to spend is determined by a “costing formula” based on population, says Returning Officer Tony Naccarato. Locally that limit is $47,507.66. The New Democrats in this riding expect to spend close to the maximum. “You always try to spend close to the costing limit,” explained Dale Vannelli at Lyle Kristiansen's cam. paign headquarters in Trail. Kristiansen said there are certain expenses such as salaries and bene- fits for campaign workers that are paid at other levels within the party, but still are accounted for in the local limit. He added that although “we've always been in the black before,” a remaining debt would be covered by borrowing money and then raising the funds. Conservative campaign spending figures are unavailable “I don’t think anybody should know how much we spend on signs or ads or whatever,” Jack Chernoff, the campaign manager for incumbent Bob Brisco, told the Castlegar News. Chernoff refused to release any figures. The Liberals estimate Garry Jen kins campaign will cost about $34,000. Campaign manager Tom Esakin said figures have been bud geted and reviewed on a weekly basis and the party’ had originally thought it would spend about $20,000, but actually raised more money. Esakin said the Liberals don’t nor. mally pay campaign workers, as the other parties do. Campaign budgets are audited and made public after the election is over. “If you win they go over you witha fine tooth comb,” said Vannelli.